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YipitData Data Scientist Interview Questions

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Statistics & ProbabilityStart here. 6 questions · ~74 min
Quarterly Revenue Trend ForecastingEasy

Forecast next quarter revenue using a linear time-trend regression and compute a 95% prediction interval for financial planning.

RegressionExpected ValueTime SeriesYipitData
Forecast Next Quarter RevenuesHard

Build and validate a daily time-series forecast, then aggregate it to estimate YipitData's upcoming-quarter revenue.

ForecastingRegressionmodelingYipitData
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Machine Learning3 questions · ~37 min
Supervised vs Unsupervised LearningEasy

Explain how supervised and unsupervised learning differ, and ground the distinction in a practical ML example.

Unsupervised LearningFeature EngineeringBias-Variance TradeoffYipitData
Decision Tree From ScratchHard

Implement, train, prune, and evaluate a decision tree classifier from scratch for a YipitData modeling use case.

Feature Engineeringmodel trainingModel EvaluationYipitData
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SQL & Data Manipulation3 questions · ~37 min
SQL for Dataset ManipulationMedium
Practice

Summarize January YipitData records by dataset using filtering and aggregation.

JoinsData ManipulationData WranglingYipitData
Data Cleaning and PreparationMedium
Practice

Prepare valid YipitData observations by removing missing, blank, negative, and undated records.

data preparationdata cleaningnull handlingYipitData
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More topics2 questions · ~25 min
Evaluate Regression with RMSE and MAEEasy

Explain how to evaluate a regression model with RMSE and MAE, and how to interpret the tradeoff between average and large errors.

RegressionMAERMSEYipitData
Improve Model AccuracyHard

Explain how to diagnose model errors, select appropriate metrics, and improve performance through data, modeling, and validation.

Hyperparameter TuningCross-ValidationEvaluation TechniquesYipitData

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